{"id":136819,"date":"2025-11-12T21:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/12\/students-with-disabilities-feel-unsupported-by-their-law-schools\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:59:29","slug":"students-with-disabilities-feel-unsupported-by-their-law-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/12\/students-with-disabilities-feel-unsupported-by-their-law-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Students With Disabilities Feel Unsupported By Their Law Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Law students with disabilities do so much on their own\u2014preparing for class, contributing to discussions, joining and leading student organizations and other activities at the highest levels. But they are missing necessary institutional support. Law schools should meet them at least halfway, providing them with the structural tools they need to thrive.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Meera E. Deo<\/a>, director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, which is part of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning the results of 2025 survey, billed as the \u201cfirst comprehensive look at disability among law students<\/a>,\u201d which revealed that 20% of law students have a disability of some kind, ranging from mental health conditions to physical disabilities. Students with disabilities reported that they often feel unsupported in their legal studies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Students With Disabilities Feel Unsupported By Their Law Schools<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Law students with disabilities do so much on their own\u2014preparing for class, contributing to discussions, joining and leading student organizations and other activities at the highest levels. But they are missing necessary institutional support. Law schools should meet them at least halfway, providing them with the structural tools they need to thrive.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Meera E. Deo<\/a>, director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, which is part of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning the results of 2025 survey, billed as the \u201cfirst comprehensive look at disability among law students<\/a>,\u201d which revealed that 20% of law students have a disability of some kind, ranging from mental health conditions to physical disabilities. Students with disabilities reported that they often feel unsupported in their legal studies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Law students with disabilities do so much on their own\u2014preparing for class, contributing to discussions, joining and leading student organizations and other activities at the highest levels. But they are missing necessary institutional support. Law schools should meet them at least halfway, providing them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky-ucOREJ.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}